"Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (also known and stylized on screen simply as Mowgli) is a 2018 adventure drama film directed by Andy Serkis with a screenplay by Callie Kloves, based on stories collected in ""All the Mowgli Stories"" by Rudyard Kipling. The film stars Rohan Chand, Matthew Rhys, and Freida Pinto, along with voice and motion capture performances from Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Naomie Harris, and Serkis. Talks of a new ""Jungle Book"" film from Warner Bros. Pictures began in 2012 and various directors, including Steve Kloves, Ron Howard, and Alejandro González"
"The Jungle The Jungle is a novel written in 1904 by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. However, most readers were more concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, greatly contributing to a public outcry which led to reforms including the"
"meat packers. The government (and taxpayers) would bear the costs of inspection, estimated at $30,000,000 annually. He complained about the public's misunderstanding of the point of his book in ""Cosmopolitan Magazine"" in October 1906 by saying, ""I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."" A film version of the novel was made in 1914, but it has since been lost. (plain text and HTML) The Jungle The Jungle is a novel written in 1904 by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and"
"stories), non-fiction, and poetry. Several of his works were collaborations. Works Resources Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include ""The Jungle Book"" (1894), ""Kim"" (1901), and many short stories, including ""The Man Who Would Be King"" (1888). His poems include ""Mandalay"" (1890), ""Gunga Din"" (1890), ""The Gods of the Copybook Headings"" (1919), ""The White Man's Burden"" (1899), and ""If—"" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in"
"Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include ""The Jungle Book"" (1894), ""Kim"" (1901), and many short stories, including ""The Man Who Would Be King"" (1888). His poems include ""Mandalay"" (1890), ""Gunga Din"" (1890), ""The Gods of the Copybook Headings"" (1919), ""The White Man's Burden"" (1899), and ""If—"" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of"
"The Beast in the Jungle The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, ""The Better Sort"". Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life. John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that"
"(1883), ""A Mere Interlude"" (1885) and ""Barbara of the House of Grebe"" (1890). Rudyard Kipling published short story collections for grown-ups, e.g. ""Plain Tales from the Hills"" (1888), as well as for children, e.g. ""The Jungle Book"" (1894). In 1892 Arthur Conan Doyle brought the detective story to a new height with ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". H.G. Wells wrote his first science fiction stories in the 1880s. One of his best known is ""The Country of the Blind"" (1904). In the United States, Herman Melville published his story collection ""The Piazza Tales"" in 1856. ""The Celebrated Jumping Frog of"
"Mowgli Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is a naked feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story ""In the Rukh"" (collected in ""Many Inventions"", 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his collections ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters. In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean ""frog"", describing his lack of fur. Kipling made up the name, and it ""does not"
"the same title in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. In this tale set in India, the young mongoose saves his family from a krait and from Nag and Nagaina, two cobras. The story was later made into several films and a song by Donovan, among other references. A mongoose also features in Bram Stoker's novel ""The Lair of the White Worm"". The main character, Adam Salton, purchases one to independently hunt snakes. Another mongoose features in the denouement of the Sherlock Holmes story ""The Adventure of the Crooked Man"", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Indian Tamil Devotional"
"CE) Zephyrus, the west wind, carries Psyche away. Later an ant feels sorry for her and helps her in her quest. Building on the popularity of fables and fairy tales, specifically ""children's"" literature began to emerge in the nineteenth century with works such as ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865) by Lewis Carroll, ""The Adventures of Pinocchio"" (1883) by Carlo Collodi and ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) by Rudyard Kipling, all employing anthropomorphic elements. This continued in the twentieth century with many of the most popular titles having anthropomorphic characters, examples being ""The Tale of Peter Rabbit"" (1901) and later books by"
"a periodical for women. Thomas Werner Laurie Thomas Werner Laurie (1866–1944) was a London publisher of books that were avant-garde in some cases, racy in others. He founded his T. Werner Laurie Ltd. publishing house in 1904 and was known for publishing the works of Yeats, Wilde, and Moore as well as others of lesser renown. He published ""The Jungle"" by Upton Sinclair when that work had been rejected for publication in England by other publishers, and Sinclair stayed with Laurie for many years in gratitude. Laurie's father was a Scot and his mother a German. Joan Werner Laurie (1920–1964),"
"and the 1885 novel ""Ramona"", by Helen Hunt Jackson, brought about changes in laws regarding Native Americans. Similarly, Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel ""The Jungle"" helped create new laws related to public health and food handling, and Arthur Morrison's 1896 novel ""A Child of the Jago"" caused England to change its housing laws. George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote ""Animal Farm"" and ""A Tale of Two Cities"", respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature. ""Animal Farm"", written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their"
"Thomas Werner Laurie Thomas Werner Laurie (1866–1944) was a London publisher of books that were avant-garde in some cases, racy in others. He founded his T. Werner Laurie Ltd. publishing house in 1904 and was known for publishing the works of Yeats, Wilde, and Moore as well as others of lesser renown. He published ""The Jungle"" by Upton Sinclair when that work had been rejected for publication in England by other publishers, and Sinclair stayed with Laurie for many years in gratitude. Laurie's father was a Scot and his mother a German. Joan Werner Laurie (1920–1964), his daughter, edited ""She"","
"Letting in the Jungle ""Letting In the Jungle"" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which continues Mowgli's adventures from ""Mowgli's Brothers"" and ""Tiger! Tiger!"". The story was written at Kipling's parents' home in Tisbury, Wiltshire, and is therefore the only Mowgli story not written in Vermont. It was published in the Pall Mall Gazette and the Pall Mall Budget for December 13, 1894, and in McClure's Magazine for January 1895, before being collected as the third story in ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1895). In the previous story Mowgli fulfilled his vow to kill the tiger Shere Khan and to"
"Kldiashvili directed a live action feature film entitled ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" four years later. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (after his chattering vocalizations) after he becomes the pet of a British family residing in India as protection against cobras. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, and is warned of the cobras Nag"
"Toddler"", and ""Pirate Boy"". John Graham Wallace John Graham Wallace (born 23 August 1966) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. Wallace was born in Felixstowe and grew up in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. He attended De Aston School and went on to study Theology at Cambridge University. He worked on the Kingston, Jamaica ""Daily Gleaner"" as a cartoonist. He has illustrated and written many children's books, many of which have been translated. His book ""The Twins"" was made into a television series on CITV in 2000. His work includes ""Mr. Bumble"", ""The Jungle Kids"", ""Wonders of America"","
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (after his chattering vocalizations) after he becomes the pet of a British family residing in India as protection against cobras. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, and is warned of the cobras Nag and Nagaina who are angered by the family's presence on their territory."
"Jungle Tales of Tarzan Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically the events recounted in it occur within Chapter 11 of the first Tarzan novel, ""Tarzan of the Apes"", between Tarzan's avenging of his ape foster mother's death and his becoming leader of his ape tribe. The stories ran monthly in ""Blue Book"" magazine, September 1916 through August 1917 before book publication in 1919. The book is a collection of twelve"
"American literature scholar Donald Pizer, is that it is a combination of allegory, parable, and fable. The story incorporates elements of age-old animal fables, such as ""Aesop's Fables,"" in which animals speak truth, and traditional beast fables, in which the beast ""substitutes wit for insight"". London was influenced by Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"", written a few years earlier, with its combination of parable and animal fable, and by other animal stories popular in the early 20th century. In ""The Call of the Wild"", London intensifies and adds layers of meaning that are lacking in these stories. As a writer"
"cruelty of his image, what had been appointed and done. He saw the Jungle of his life and saw the lurking Beast; then, while he looked, perceived it, as by a stir of the air, rise, huge and hideous, for the leap that was to settle him. His eyes darkened—it was close; and, instinctively turning, in his hallucination, to avoid it, he flung himself, on his face, on the tomb. The Beast in the Jungle The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, ""The Better Sort"". Almost universally considered"
"the way back to a long leave in England. An obituary noted that he was a vegetarian while another noted his refusal to accept an invitation to dine with Prince Albert Victor who was visiting Mysore. An 1899 newspaper correspondent and an article published by the Kipling Society in 1971 suggest that ""Petersen Sahib, the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India"" in the Jungle Book story, ""Toomai of the Elephants"" by Rudyard Kipling, was a reference to George Peress Sanderson. George P. Sanderson George Peress Sanderson (1848–1892) was a British naturalist who worked in the"
"scheme behind the princess's back. The Princess and the Unicorn The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's fantasy novel by British-born American author Carol Hughes, who also wrote ""Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves"". The novel was published in hardcover on February 24, 2009, by Random House Books for Young Readers. This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. Joyce lives in Swinley Forest with a community of other fairies who rely on the forest's unicorn for survival. One day, Joyce follows the unicorn to the edge of the forest and"
"The Princess and the Unicorn The Princess and the Unicorn is a children's fantasy novel by British-born American author Carol Hughes, who also wrote ""Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves"". The novel was published in hardcover on February 24, 2009, by Random House Books for Young Readers. This novel follows two characters: Princess Eleanor of England and a young fairy named Joyce. Joyce lives in Swinley Forest with a community of other fairies who rely on the forest's unicorn for survival. One day, Joyce follows the unicorn to the edge of the forest and is spotted by Princess Eleanor."
"Jungle Girl (novel) Jungle Girl is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, set in a forgotten kingdom in the jungles of Cambodia. Burroughs started the novel in 1929 (2 October) under the working title ""The Dancing Girl of the Leper King"". It was first run serially in five installments from May to September 1931 by ""Blue Book Magazine"" under the title ""The Land of Hidden Men"". The book version was first published by ERB, Inc. on 15 April 1932. Ace Paperback has republished the book in paperback several times, again under the title ""The Land of Hidden Men""."
"The Jungle Book (2016 film) The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and written by Justin Marks. Based on Rudyard Kipling's eponymous collective works and inspired by Walt Disney's 1967 animated film of the same name, ""The Jungle Book"" is a live-action/CGI film that tells the story of Mowgli, an orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan. The film introduces Neel Sethi as Mowgli and also features the voices of Bill"
"in ""The All-Story"" in October 1912. ""The All-Story"" published it in its entirety in installments, and it was published in 1914 as a novel. Though ""The Jungle Book"" is sometimes cited as an influence on Burroughs’ ""Tarzan of the Apes"", he claimed that his only inspiration was the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus. Rudyard Kipling commented that Burroughs ""had 'jazzed' the motif of the Jungle Books and, I imagine, thoroughly enjoyed himself."" Recent literary criticism often focuses on the identity of the eponymous protagonist of ""Tarzan of the Apes."" Literary scholars, such as Jeff Berglund, Mikko Tuhkanen, J. Michelle"
"Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel ""The Jungle"", which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act"
"Baloo Baloo ( ""Bhālū"", ""bear"") is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" from 1894 and ""The Second Jungle Book"" from 1895. Baloo, a sloth bear, is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack. His most challenging pupil is the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. Baloo and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is described in Kipling's work as ""the sleepy brown bear"". Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his"
"The Village in the Jungle The Village in the Jungle is a novel by Leonard Woolf, published in 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the early years of the 20th century. Ground-breaking in Western fiction for being written from the native rather than the colonial point of view, it is also an influential work of Sri Lankan literature. It was republished by Eland in 2008. Leonard Woolf worked for the British Ceylon Civil Service in Sri Lanka for seven years after graduating from Cambridge University in 1904. In Cambridge"
"This is the Jungle This is the Jungle is the fifth book of jungle tales and man-eaters written by Kenneth Anderson, first published in 1964 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. The book is dedicated to the memory of Kenneth Anderson's late mother, Lucie Anne Anderson. Anderson also acknowledges thanks to his publishers, ""I very gladly take this opportunity of expressing my grateful thanks to Malcolm Barnes of George Allen & Unwin Ltd., for all the time and trouble he has given to patiently reading through and editing all my stories, both in this volume and its four predecessors"". Introduction"
"of the nineteenth century, with a circulation of almost 70,000 copies. She had the faculty of suggesting, creating, obtaining the contributions she wanted from just the people she wanted to write. She was able to persuade many of the great writers of the world to contribute to her children's magazine – Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tennyson, Longfellow, Bryant, Holmes, Bret Harte, John Hay, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and scores of others. One day, Kipling told her a story of the Indian jungle, and Mrs. Dodge asked him to write it down for St. Nicholas."
"The Gorilla Hunters The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author . A sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel ""The Coral Island"" and set in ""darkest Africa"", its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. The book's themes are similar to those of ""The Coral Island"", in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central in the novel is the hunt for gorillas, an animal until recently unknown to the Western world, which came to play"
"In all his novels, the paternalistic relationship between the Christian missionary and the receptive native is a red thread. Citations Bibliography The Gorilla Hunters The Gorilla Hunters: A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861) is a boys' adventure novel by Scottish author . A sequel to his hugely successful 1858 novel ""The Coral Island"" and set in ""darkest Africa"", its main characters are the earlier novel's three boys: Ralph, Peterkin and Jack. The book's themes are similar to those of ""The Coral Island"", in which the boys testify to the positive influence of missionary work among the natives. Central"